Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

court — " No court. Bitterly disappointed, her face fell; she stared as if she'd just discovered I had twro heads. A player without a swimming pool or tennis court was more than she could bear. There's one question, though, that nobody ever asks me. I wait for it in every interview — just because I know the an swer to this particular one. But some beautiful day somebody's going to look me in the eye and ask quite seriously, "TERRY, DO YOU LIKE TO WORK IN PICTURES?" And I'm going to answer YES! in a loud, glad voice — because I really, really do! Stay As Mean As You Are Continued from page 49 wood, the fact that Dan is a fine actor is legendary. He's an actor's actor, delight of producers and directors alike. Production costs go down when Dan is on a picture. He's no amateur who has to do a scene twenty times to get what the director wants. Dan gets it the first time — with a little extra thrown in. Besides being able to depend on his excellent craftsmanship, producers also know the minute they cast Dan in a picture, the box-office receipts start climbing. For Dan brings to every characterization his own brand of excitement, danger, sex appeal, and suspense. Aaron Rosenberg, who produced "Winchester 73," sums up Dan's screen appeal this way, "Some people like him. Some hate his guts. But no one is indifferent to him. I think his big quality is that women know that underneath that cold, dirty, mean exterior is what every woman thinks is a warm guy — a man who understands women and wants to understand them even better. They all feel that perhaps they could reform him. "As for his being an actor's actor, this means that Dan doesn't demand that he dominate each scene. He may be a scene stealer because of his ability, but never because he thinks only of his own performance. He's smart enough to know that the people around him are what make a scene good or bad." George Sherman, who directed Dan in "Larceny," puts it this way, "Dan has something every woman responds to: ruthless male domination." That's the secret of Dan's enormous box-office drawing power. That's why fans write him such strange fan letters. That's why they say, "Don't ever change. Stay as mean as you are." They really mean it. A few years back, his studio started telling the world via the press that Dan Duryea was really a nice guy when you got to know him, devoted to his wife and two sons, and that his idea of a big afternoon was puttering around in his rose garden. His fan mail slowed down to a roar. Girls didn't want to know their heel had a heart of gold. They wanted to keep the illusion real. They wanted to believe that what they saw up there on the screen, in all its menacing, ruthless, sexdriven undertones, really existed. With the box-office dollar in mind, publicity was immediately stopped on Dan and his rose garden. The other night, as he drove into the wide driveway of his estate, he saw a young girl waiting by the iron gate. As he stopped and got out of the car to unlatch the gate, she walked up and made an odd request. "Slap me, Dan," she said. Such perplexing incidents as these have understandably driven Dan to wonder why women react to him the way they do. When "Scarlet Street" was released several years ago, and his fan letters — ninety percent of them of this strange nature — flooded the post office to the tune of 5,000 a week, Dan visited one of the biggest psychiatrists in Los Angeles to find the answer. The psychiatrist told him, "In this age, particularly in America, men are becoming more and more polite, effete, and subservient to. their women. There is so little male domination left in the world that women are hungry for it and go to the movies to enjoy it vicariously. For, biologically and fundamentally, women are naturally submissive. They like to be mastered. "Besides," he added, "I don't think they think you are really so bad." Many Duryea fans are honestly puzzled by the strange attraction they find in Dan. They don't know, to put it bluntly, what ails them. What makes them go for Dan instead of the nice, clean-cut heroes who crowd the screens? Leaving out the fact that in real life, Dan Duryea is as handsome and cleancut as any Van Johnson you might happen to meet, psychiatrists say girls go for Dan because of a natural female desire for the man to be the boss. In our modern age, point out these medicine men, the so-called emancipation of women has resulted in a namby-pamby relationship between male and female. Whatever else you may say of Dan Duryea, no one will ever say he is namby-pamby. He has virility and force and determination. He has a slow, lazy walk — especially intriguing to the female of the species. He has a nasal, insinuating voice, and a look in his eye that is definitely a man-woman look. He looks as if women are important to him and that he would be possessive and demanding. He looks as if he would say, "Don't forget you belong to me!" And back up the words with a hard, controlled will that would suggest, 'You had darned well better remember ... if you know what's good for you!" Women like this. It makes them feel important. Women enjoy a certain amount of flattering jealousy. Dan has also learned from his fan mail that women not only like to know a man is boss, but they like a man to size them up as women. With the stereotyped heroes, the men are more concerned with running a factory or winning a race than NOW! REDUCE "I used to be overweight. Now — Look at my figure, everyone else does." Betty Brosemer (Noted N. Y. Model) LOSE POUNDS of FAT k EACH WEEK! Yes, that is what many have said about the new B-Slim Method! AT LONG LAST, A two way DOUBLE REDUCING Program is yours at less than you would expect to pay for an ordinary plod alonghope-to-lose weight method. 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